Your test has nothing to do with stack allocation because you never
use the objects that you pass to the log_info method so JIT removes
them. Apply the following patch and see yourself create garbage in
both testWith and testWithout.
--- Test2.java 2012-03-23 23:01:05.540475497 -0400
+++ Test.java 2012-03-23 23:01:47.304477562 -0400
@@ -6,8 +6,11 @@
final Object existing = new Object();
Object tmp = null;
+ long sideEffect;
public void log_info(String format, Object ... args) {
if (log_level) {
+ for (Object o : args)
+ sideEffect += o.hashCode();
System.out.println("don't optimise me out");
}
}
@@ -88,11 +91,8 @@
printSummary("with alloc", res[0], "w/o alloc", res[1]);
printSummary("with alloc", res[2], "w/o alloc", res[3]);
printSummary("with alloc", res[4], "w/o alloc", res[5]);
- System.out.println("---- with stack allocation and \"real use case\"");
- res = testWithOtherCode(z);
- printSummary("log only", res[0], "log+work", res[1]);
- printSummary("log only", res[2], "log+work", res[3]);
- printSummary("log only", res[4], "log+work", res[5]);
+
+ System.out.println(sideEffect);
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:48 PM, Ximin Luo <infinity0 at gmx.com> wrote:
> On 24/03/12 02:44, Zlatin Balevsky wrote:
>> Wrong. ?Extracting the log statement into its own method and calling
>> that method inside the while loop still creates garbage. ?Stack frames
>> are different.
>>
>
> How do you explain the results obtained from running my test code, then? Turn
> on -verbose:gc. testWithStackAllocation results in no GC,
> testWithoutStackAllocation results in lots of GC.
>
>> Read again exactly how Escape Analysis works. ?The objects it prevents
>> from creating do not appear in heap histograms. ?Take a "jmap -histo
>> <pid>" and you will see a huge number of java.lang.Integer objects in
>> the heap, not on the stack.
>>
>
> If you're still talking about your example, this is exactly consistent with my
> explanation, i.e. that escape analysis is NOT occurring, properly anyway.
>
>> The difference in run times of your example could be due to many
>> things. ?How many iterations did you run? ?It may be still in
>> interpreted mode. ?Enable -XX:+PrintCompilation and discard any
>> results until JIT stops printing.
>
> Done that, JIT stops printing after the 3rd iteration and results are the same
> thereafter.
>
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